Animated GIFs Paint Breaking Bad Characters in DayGlo Pixels

Though he’s not professionally connected to Breaking Bad, TV actor Paul Scheer has a thing for AMC’s black-humored drama. To prove it, he’s turned his obsession into a series of animated GIFs that surround middle-class meth dealer Walter White with perky blasts of color.

“If Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Sistine Chapel today, he would do it with GIFs, so it’s the only fitting tribute to such a great show,” Scheer told Wired.com in an e-mail. “So many people still haven’t seen it. What better way to make Breaking Bad more accessible than combining it with the most popular art forms?”

Scheer, who appears in FX Network’s The League and the Adult Swim comedy NTSF:SD:SUV, makes it clear he’s not angling for a gig on Breaking Bad, which stars Emmy-winner Bryan Cranston as a science-teacher-turned-crank-cooker.

“My only connection to the show is that I’m cooking up GIFs like Walter White serves up meth,” he said.

The animated images by Scheer and his team, including the exclusive sneak peek of an airborne Walter White with his notorious RV, are posted every few days on Scheer’s Breaking Gifs Tumblr. There, Breaking Bad fans can get a jolt of optic-nerve stimulation as they wait for the series’ fifth season to crank up in July.